Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - April 2001 Issue

A Focus on Coaching

Coaching 101: The Coaching Quiz
Coaching and mentoring are highly effective ways to build organizational and individual leadership capacity, but few managers and executives (and, unfortunately, a number of professional coaches) understand the 'do's' and 'don'ts' of coaching. Take our True/False quiz to test your knowledge of the role and responsibility of a coach.

What is Executive Coaching, Anyway?
The boom in executive coaching in the U.S. is seen as the greatest thing ever to happen to management by some and the latest fad, worthy of Dilbert-style mocking, by others. To gain a clear understanding of why coaching is valuable, what it entails and who can use it, read on...

Executive Coaching: A Guru's View
Successful people are successful in spite of something, according to executive coach and consultant Marshall Goldsmith. Helping executives understand this and change ineffective behavior is Goldsmith's challenge.

Playing Defense: Manufacturing VP Gets a Coach
"You're too defensive."
That's what Gerald Mitchell, Vice President of Manufacturing for BGF Industries, was told by his peers and boss. And it was preventing Mitchell from becoming an effective leader.